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percursory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
per-cur-so-ry
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

rushed, hasty or cursory.

Archaic

Etymology

From Latin percursor (“one who runs through”), from percurrere. See percurrent.

Origin

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more percursory (comparative) most percursory (superlative)

Questions

What does percursory mean?
rushed, hasty or cursory.
Where does percursory come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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